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1920, Balls Cross Ref. POP631593
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Memories

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Grosvenor Road And Urmston, Always A Place In My Heart.

I lived on Grosvenor Road, Urmston - the allotment end - from 1965 to late 1969 age 3 to nearly 8 years of age with my 2 brothers and parents (we then moved to Blackburn). My daughter has recently ...Read more

A memory of Urmston by magwat13

Living In Teddington 1950s To 1980s

We moved from 76 Princes Road in 1957 to the other end of Teddington, to 143 High Street, opposite Kingston Lane. My parents bought the house for about £1400 (yes fourteen hundred) as a refurb project. It still had ...Read more

A memory of Teddington

School Days

As far back that I can remember, it was the summer of 1934 when I first started school at St Mary's Roman Catholic School in Calcutta Road. I sat next to a friend that I had made (John Toole) Who later in life emigrated to Canada and was ...Read more

A memory of Tilbury in 1930 by John Ryan

Hawkinge, My Birthplace

I was born at Corner House, at the bottom of Aerodrome Rd, Hawkinge on 31st August 1936. My parents were the local newsagents in Canterbury Rd, backing onto the famous airfield.  I have vivid childhood memories of the war ...Read more

A memory of Folkestone in 1940 by David Pepin

Eastry Childrens Home

I had a wonderful upbringing ‘up the hill’ from Buttshole pond… 1958 - 1966 I was raised in one of the seven cottages- mine was Lime Cottage. My matron was Mrs. Aunty Betty Harris- who had a daughter, ...Read more

A memory of Eastry by John Boston

Whymarks Of Little Cornard

Over 70 years ago, when I was about three or four years old, my parents and I would travel from Luton to see my maternal grandmother, Kate Whymark, who was the widow of Ernest Whymark. I never met Ernest, as he fell off ...Read more

A memory of Little Cornard by Maggie Reeves

When The Reverend Nichols Was The Rector

Sadly, I believe St Michael's Church is little more now than a ruin of it's former self, nothing like it was in the 1940's when it seemed to stand proudly on the hill watching over and protecting the small ...Read more

A memory of Pitsea in 1940 by Thelma Hurly

Life As A Young Boy In Saltdean

THE LIFE & TIMES OF DONALD CHARLES WILLIAMS Personal recollections from Don Williams from Hailsham who lived in Saltdean from 1937 to 1952 - Many thanks for these wonderful stories & photo's of Saltdean in the ...Read more

A memory of Saltdean in 1940 by Don Williams

America Woods

I lived in the house called Abbotsford in about 1934 which to this day, stands by the side of the America Woods. Once a year, the scouts would camp in the field at the back of the house. I spent many happy times playing in those woods, ...Read more

A memory of Shanklin by Claire Spencer

Perfect Place

My name was Sandra Goodfellow when I was born at home in Erbistock in 1954. I lived on Twining hill. I had a very happy childhood there with my three siblings, Mum and Dad. I started Erbistock school in 1957. It was a cosy, two ...Read more

A memory of Erbistock by Sandra Bayley

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Captions

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Caption For Bromsgrove, High Street 1949

On the right-hand side is The Golden Cross Hotel, rebuilt in 1932 on the site of one of Bromsgrove`s oldest coaching inns.

Caption For Cattistock, General Vew 1906

Cattistock is well known as a centre for foxhunting - the local pack is one of the best-supported in England.

Caption For Sandwich, The Barbican C1955

Across the sluggish waters of the River Stour, the Bridgegate, usually called the Barbican, was built in 1539 with semi-circular flanking bastions.

Caption For Great Cornard, Church 1895

This view was taken across the River Stour from Middleton in Essex.

Caption For Norwich, Market Place And St Peter Mancroft Church 1891

One of the largest markets in the country, looking across to the church of St Peter Mancroft. one of the largest and most impressive parish churches in England.

Caption For Holdenhurst, Throop Village C1945

Holdenhurst has retained its rural setting near the banks of the River Stour, despite the sprawl of Bournemouth across its more distant meadows.

Caption For Hayle, Towans 1927

With such a fine view across the bay to St Ives, it is little surprise that holidaymakers should have come to camp at Hayle Towans.

Caption For Evesham, Market Place 1910

It is easy to see here how the Bell Tower dominates the neighbourhood - it was originally designed partly as a landmark to attract and guide the faithful across the Vale of Evesham.

Caption For Tanworth In Arden, Composite C1965

It was originally just Tanworth, but the suffix was added in the 19th century to avoid confusion with Tamworth, which is now in Staffordshire but was then in Warwickshire.

Caption For Bedford, Biddenham Church 1897

Across the Great Ouse we reach Biddenham, now virtually joined to Bedford by housing estates.

Caption For Botesdale, The Village C1960

On the left, in Rickinghall Inferior, is the bow window of Edmund Kerry's hardware and newsagent's shop.

Caption For Newdigate, The Church 1906

The church of St Peter, with its 14th-century tower made entirely of wood and supported inside by a framework of huge oak timbers, also has a 13th-century chancel and a south aisle added a hundred years

Caption For Abingdon, Abbey Gardens, Trendell's Ruins 1925

Moving north of the Checker and across Abbey Close and into Abbey Gardens, we reach the site of the abbey church, which was about 300 feet long, and the cloisters and monastic buildings.

Caption For Sawbridgeworth, Knight Street C1965

The eastern end of Bell Street is crossed by Knight Street, a wide road leading from Station Road to Fair Green where a market and fair have been held since the charter was granted in 1306.

Caption For Fenstanton, Church Of St Peter And St Paul 1898

The landscape designer Lancelot `Capability` Brown is buried here at Fenstanton with his wife and children.

Caption For Godmanchester, Bridge 1901

The footpath crosses the river firstly over the weir and then across the Chinese Bridge.

Caption For Abinger Hammer, The Village C1955

Across the chalk ridge, the route returns to the greensand country, and to one of Surrey's prettiest and most wooded areas.

Caption For Nether Alderley, Church 1896

OF ALL the villages in this collection, Nether Alderley perhaps gives us the best impression of what a north-eastern Cheshire village was like before the Industrial Revolution changed both the

Caption For Grantham, St Wulfram's Church, The Chained Library 1889

There are plaques recalling this, and the Corps standard is laid up in the church.

Caption For Loughborough, C1955

That name is read, said and rings out across the world.